Video Tools

Subscriptions and other stuff

• Curriculum Video on Demand (Films Media Group/Facts on File)
• Discovery Education Streaming
• EBSCO (select the images/video tab)
• elibrary
• History Reference Center
• NBC News Archives on Demand
• Safari Montage
• Snagfilms (free full-length documentaries)

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Video/Audio Searching Portals

• Blinkx Video metasearch engine
• blip.tv
• dotSUB (any video, any language. Enables subtitling of videos).
• Electronic Field Trips (Ball State University -- some archived EFTs are available free of charge)
• Eduscapes (Great list of resources but not many videos)
• FedFlix (best movies of the United States Government via Internet Archive)
• Movie Clips
• FreeDocumentaries.org
• Google Video Search
• Graspr (high quality instructional videos)
• Open Video Project
• Hulu.com (television shows)
• Internet Archive Moving image archive
• JohnLocker (documentaries)
• Khan Academy (curricular videos)
• Kideos: Videos for Kids
• NeoK12 (educational video preK-12)
• NextVista (online library for teachers and students)
• Nipedia (educational video database)
• Nonfictionvideos (archive of documentary films)
• Open Vault (WGBH Media Library & Archives)
• PBS Video
• Penn Video Production
• Regents Review Live
• SchoolTube
• SchoolsTube
• SchoolWaxTV (safe video portal for kids)
• SearchForVideo
• Shambles: Video Online
• Snagfilms (free full-length documentaries)
• Spreety TV Online
• SqoolTube
• StoryCenter (sharing digital stories, personal narrative)
• StudyBeat (digital library of educational content)
• TeacherTube
• TeachersTV (professional development)
• TheFuturesChannel
• Top Documentary Films
• Top Websites for Streamed Television Shows
• Totlol(for children)
• WatchKnow (more than 11,000 videos across 2,000 categories on subjects such as math, science, and history)
• Yahoo Video Search
• YouTube Search for and upload video
• YouTubeEDU (university video content)

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Mostly Documentaries

• JohnLocker (documentaries)
• Snagfilms (free full-length documentaries)
• Top Documentary Films
• FreeDocumentaries.org
• Nonfictionvideos (archive of documentary films)
• Biography Shorts
• Documentary TV Online (Spreety)

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Academic/Learning Video Portals

See also educational video background listed on Information Fluency wiki

• Academic Earth (video lectures by top scholars)
• Annenberg Teacher Media Resources
• Apple Learning Interchange
• Atomic Learning
• ForaTV (issues and ideas changing the world from universities and conferences)
• iTunesU iTunesUniversity lectures as iTunes files
• ResearchChannel (university content)
• ScholarSpot
• Educational Video (RefSeek)
• SchoolTube
• TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
  • TED Links on Google Doc
• TeachersTV
• TeacherTube
• UChannel (from universities around the world)
• YouTubeEDU
• Next Vista for Learning
• MathTV
• 25 Places to Find Instructional Video
• Intelligent YouTube Channels

Video content is included in these open source curriculum portals:

• MIT Highlights for High School
• MIT OpenCouseWare
• OER Commons
• OpenSource Textbooks
• WatchKnow (an Internet search engine that links teachers, students and parents to thousands of free educational videos and slide shows --Resource Shelf)

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Humanities

• Bates College: Language Learning and Technology
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
• BBC News in 33 Languages
• CyberLC--Cybercasts from the Library of Congress
• EuroNews
• Kennedy Center Archives
• Ovation Arts TV
• Teaching German through Music
• NBC Language Arts

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Mostly Social Studies

• American Memory: Motion Pictures
• Archaelogy Channel
• Biography Shorts
• C-Span's American Presidents Life Portraits
• CNN Video Almanac
• Conversations with History
• Digital History
• EASE History Video and photographs from American historical events, campaign ads, core values
• History Animated (the wars)
• History Channel Video Clip Archive
• Internet Archive Contains many items including: Prelinger Archive, classic features/shorts, and Mosaic Middle East News
• March of Time Newsreels (HBO)
• National Archives Video Sections
• National Geographic WebCasts
• NBC Social Studies
• Have Fun with History
• History.com (WWII Videos)

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Mostly Science, Math and Technology (See also How to)

• Best Tech Videos on the Net
• Howard Hughes Institute BioInteractive
• NASA TV
• NASA Multimedia Archive
• National Geographic WebCasts
• NOVA Online
• PBS Nature Video Database
• Teachers' Domain Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development
• Science Goes to the Movies
• UntamedScience
• Biology Animation Library
• MathTV
• NBC Science
• NBC Science of the Olympic Games

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Mostly News

• ABC News Video Index
• AP Yahoo! News
• BBC News in 33 Languages
• C-SPAN
  • C-SPAN Educators Resource Page
  • C-SPAN American Writers Video Archive
  • C-SPAN Video Library
• CBS News Video
• Channel One
• CNN Iraq Sights and Sounds Archive
• CNN Special Reports
• CNN Video
• Euronews
• FORA TV: The World is Thinking
• Footnote TV
• Fox News
• iCue (video from NBC News Archives)
• MSNBC
• NBC: In the News
• New York Times Video
• PBS NewsHour
• Streaming Video News Resources (Gary Price)
• Voice of America
• Yahoo! News Video

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Copyright-Friendly Video

• American Memory Motion Pictures
• Creative Commons Video Search
• Kitzu Multimedia kits for education
• KOCE TV School House Video K

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How to

• ClifChef for recipe videos
• Ehow (how to do just about anything)
• HowStuffWorks (how the world works)
• ThatsHow for how to videos
• Tubetorial
• Video DownloadHelper (add-on for Firefox browser)
• VideoJug (step by step directions)
• Woopid (technology training)

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